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Question 230458: A music store is selling posters and CDs. Each poster gives a profit of $3.00 and each CD gives a profit of $5.00. The store needs to make an average profit of $200 per hour to stay in business. Let x represent the number of posters sold and y represent the number of CDs sold. Write and graph an inequality showing how many of each item (posters and CDs) the store needs to sell per hour to make a sufficient profit. Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A music store is selling posters and CDs. Each poster gives a profit of $3.00 and each CD gives a profit of $5.00. The store needs to make an average profit of $200 per hour to stay in business. Let x represent the number of posters sold and y represent the number of CDs sold. Write and graph an inequality showing how many of each item (posters and CDs) the store needs to sell per hour to make a sufficient profit.
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Profit Equation: 3x + 5y >= 200
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y >= (-3/5)x + 40
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Stan H.
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